My Favourite Memoirs and Autobiographies

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  • Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

    • ASIN: 0425261018
    • ISBN: 0425261018
    • Brand: Jenny Lawson
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy.“Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah MagazineWhen Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, ... [Read More]

  • Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

    • ASIN: 1451695195
    • ISBN: 1451695195
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven. Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, b... [Read More]

  • It Was Me All Along: A Memoir

    • ASIN: B00LDQOZYC
    • Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    • UPC: 642688054472
    • ASIN: 081298840X
    • ISBN: 081298840X
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ISBN: 0615835600
    • Manufacturer: K.L Randis

    "Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful -- and ultimately triumphant -- story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." -Stacy Brown, Pocono Record Newspaper"I read this book in two days. I couldn't put it down.... [Read More]

  • Educated: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0399590501
    • Brand: Manning
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown

    • ASIN: 1101904402
    • ISBN: 1101904402
    • Brand: CROWN ARCHETYPE
    • Manufacturer: Crown Archetype

    “Wonderful." —Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesCelebrating the 20th anniversary of storytelling phenomenon The Moth, 45 unforgettable true stories about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best ever told on their stagesCarefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of ... [Read More]

  • In Pieces

    • ASIN: 1538763028
    • ISBN: 1538763028
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother. One of the most celebrated, beloved... [Read More]

  • An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

    • ASIN: 0679763309
    • ISBN: 9780679763307
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • El Deafo

    • ASIN: 1419712179
    • ISBN: 1419712179
    • Brand: HACHETTE BOOK GROUP USA
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    New York Times Bestseller A 2015 Newbery Honor Book Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age... [Read More]

  • The Glass Castle: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 074324754X
    • ISBN: 9780743247542
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Fire Shut Up in My Bones

    • ASIN: 0544570111
    • ISBN: 0544570111
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    A New York Times Notable Book | Lambda Literary Award Winner | Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award “Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age.” — Washington Blade “[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting.” — New York TimesUniversally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering jo... [Read More]

  • The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up

    • ASIN: 1496403274
    • ISBN: 1496403274
    • Brand: Tyndale House Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Tyndale Momentum

    Now with a new afterword! A five star–reviewed, unforgettable story that bestselling author Homer Hickam calls “one of the most eloquent, moving, irresistible true stories” he’s ever read. The Waiting will touch your heart and make you believe in love’s enduring legacy, as well as the power of prayer.In 1928, 16-year-old Minka was on a pi... [Read More]

  • Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition): From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    • ASIN: B005CRQ4XI
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    • ASIN: 1400078431
    • ISBN: 1400078431
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

  • The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own.

    • ASIN: 1416541535
    • ISBN: 1416541535
    • Brand: Carr, David
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    From David Carr (1956–2015), the “undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist” (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times called “a compelling tale of drug abuse, despair, and, finally, hope.”Do we remember only the stories we can live with? The ones that make us look good in the r... [Read More]

  • Lucky

    • ASIN: 1501171631
    • ISBN: 1501171631
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    The timeless, fearless, #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from the author of The Lovely Bones—a powerful account of her sexual assault at the age of eighteen and the harrowing trial that followed, now with a new afterword by the author.In a memoir hailed for its searing candor, as well as its wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was transfor... [Read More]

  • The Bigamist: the true story of a husband's ultimate betrayal

    • ASIN: B06W591H5Z
    • Manufacturer: WhiteWater Publishing Ltd

  • The Cross and the Switchblade

    • ASIN: 0515090255
    • ISBN: 0515090255
    • Brand: WaterBrook Press
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    The dramatic and inspiring true story of a small town minister called to help inner city kids everyone else believed were beyond hope...David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania hills when he was stunned by a new calling from God: go to New York City to speak to seven young gang members on trial for murder. But something much g... [Read More]

  • This Will Only Hurt a Little

    • ASIN: 1501184717
    • ISBN: 9781501184710
    • Brand: Gallery Books
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A hilarious, heartfelt, and refreshingly honest memoir by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles on Freaks and Geeks, Dawson’s Creek, and Cougar Town who has become “the breakout star of Instagram stories...Imagine I Love Lucy mixed with a modern lifestyle guru” (The New Yorker).“You guys!! Busy i... [Read More]

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